Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage

AFA Pellegrini, J Harden, K Georgiou, KS Hemes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One paradigm in biogeochemistry is that frequent disturbance tends to deplete carbon (C) in
soil organic matter (SOM) by reducing biomass inputs and promoting losses. However …

Record-breaking wildfires in the world's largest continuous tropical wetland: Integrative fire management is urgently needed for both biodiversity and humans

LC Garcia, JK Szabo, F de Oliveira Roque… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Brazilian Pantanal, wildfire occurrence has increased, reaching record highs
of over 40,000 km 2 in 2020. Smoke from wildfires worsened the situation of isolated, as well …

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

M Migliavacca, T Musavi, MD Mahecha, JA Nelson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

Belowground community responses to fire: meta‐analysis reveals contrasting responses of soil microorganisms and mesofauna

Y Pressler, JC Moore, MF Cotrufo - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global fire regimes are shifting due to climate and land use changes. Understanding the
responses of belowground communities to fire is key to predicting changes in the ecosystem …

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

P Smith, D Martino, Z Cai, D Gwary… - … transactions of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Agricultural lands occupy 37% of the earth's land surface. Agriculture accounts for 52 and
84% of global anthropogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Agricultural soils may …

'Breathing'of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

D Baldocchi - Australian Journal of Botany, 2008 - CSIRO Publishing
Published eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange between
vegetation and the atmosphere from a global network are distilled, synthesised and …

An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network–OzFlux

J Beringer, LB Hutley, I McHugh, SK Arndt… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
OzFlux is the regional Australian and New Zealand flux tower network that aims to provide a
continental-scale national research facility to monitor and assess trends, and improve …

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

KH Erb, S Luyssaert, P Meyfroidt… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In the light of daunting global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity
loss and food security, improving our understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth …

[BOG][B] The weather and climate of Australia and New Zealand

AP Sturman, NJ Tapper - 1996 - research.monash.edu
This book covers the subject on global, synoptic and more localised scales as well the
important issue of climate change variability in four major sections. The first section …

Effects of charcoal production on soil physical properties in Ghana

PG Oguntunde, BJ Abiodun, AE Ajayi… - Journal of Plant …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Charcoal production, widespread in Ghana like in other W African countries, is a major
driver of land‐cover change. Effects of charcoal production on soil physical, including …